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I've been a woman all my life and nothing angers me more than a chicken-little attempt at playing a victim.
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As a matter of fact, I'd say that a majority of the current Republican platform (mind you, current) is based on willfully limited perspectives and symbolic speech filled with chicken-little hypothetical doom scenarios.
Georgia congressman: Wilson's outburst 'carefully calculated' 2009
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Is this how we get Zachriel to disappear - ask questions that if answered will show his position to be nuthin 'but chicken-little chickenshit?
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Arianna, however, likes the way Obama chided business for their chicken-little claims about health-safety regulation drug safety, seat-belts, child labor but, still, she doesn't hear one clear narrative that could be repeated and remembered.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Pharaoh Down, Dutch @ 100, Birth, Space HuffPost Radio 2011
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Arianna, however, likes the way Obama chided business for their chicken-little claims about health-safety regulation drug safety, seat-belts, child labor but, still, she doesn't hear one clear narrative that could be repeated and remembered.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Pharaoh Down, Dutch @ 100, Birth, Space HuffPost Radio 2011
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IOW Zach is that special breed - an extreme alarmist - think chicken-little with its head cut off.
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No. There is political support - and chicken-little support, but scientific support is noticeably absent.
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Arianna, however, likes the way Obama chided business for their chicken-little claims about health-safety regulation drug safety, seat-belts, child labor but, still, she doesn't hear one clear narrative that could be repeated and remembered.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Pharaoh Down, Dutch @ 100, Birth, Space HuffPost Radio 2011
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Nate at 538 must be laughing out loud at your bogus chicken-little headline
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Then, of course, there is the chicken-little pronouncements of Fatih Birol, the Chief Economist of the IEA, who garnered much press recently by rehashing the depletion theories of that star peak oil prankster Matt ($500/bbl oil) Simmons.
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